Why UK councils are cutting services but raising taxes
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2024
- Birmingham may boast that it is Europe's biggest local authority, but its city councillors will be voting tonight on whether to shrink services while hiking up council tax bills by more than 20 per cent in the next two years.
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That means hundreds of jobs are at risk along with services such as libraries, road repairs, and park maintenance.
And Birmingham is by no means alone among local authorities in being effectively bankrupt.
So, what do voters want to see in the next budget?
Improved public services provided by a better-funded NHS and enough money for local councils? Or do they want to see tax cuts? Or cuts to National Insurance - something that has been widely leaked as the government plan.
We have been to very different parts of the country to try to find out
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Well, tbf, you can’t really cut taxes and raise services, but you _can_ cut services and still raise taxes. It’s called ‘corruption’.
I don’t know about you, but I’d rather they stuff their 2% national insurance tax cut and start funding our local authorities. Children need a future.
Remove immigrants and cut benefits
They can cut tax and increase services by spending less on Ukraine, hs2 and 101 other money pits.
@@csharpe5787children will have to learn to be without
Called over paying staff. I worked in a council years ago.
They have plenty of money for war but not for the people of this country
Good
You vote labour that’s what u get.
I work for a local authority, and the level of incompetence is appalling. Most of the upper management I know just simply do not car enough, and are happy to watch things deteriorat as long as they get paid. There is no internal audit and poor behaviour is not reprimanded whatsoever.
Exactly what we see as well in London councils. Incompetence, laziness and wasted money. All the load on the few proper employees.
The sad thing is that if others were in that position, getting paid and not needing to care, wouldn't majority if people do this? It's just the world we live in now, everyone is greedy and the number of decent people is slim.
@@alleshaxx1419Well that was Thatchers mantra.Greed is good and the tories and other parties are sticking to it.
Giving contracts to “family and friends “ doesn’t help either 😂
You have just described socialism. If it was a company, these people would have been fired long ago.
14 Years of Nothing, Tories out!
The Left wing and the Right wing are simply two wings from the same bird.
@@Coope91 you say that but which wing is currently crushing us and which wing stands up for the working class instead of the obscenely wealthy...
@@Deathwish026 totally agree I’m fed up of the vacuous and moronic “they’re all the same” argument, clearly they are not. The Tories have raped the country over the last 14 years. The Covid money that disappeared is outrageous. They’re not even bothering to hide it now, as they know their friends will help them get away with it. Baroness Mone should already be doing a 20 year stretch.
Yet its the red councils going bankrupt. The time to protest was when they were misspending your money, not when it runs out - as it inevitably does
Who would you vote for instead?
WHY is there no accountability. WHY are these council leaders not before a judge
WHERE HAS ALL OUR MONEY GONE!!!🤮
to 10 million unemployed, of which 80% are non-British born.
Our former council CEO was afforded a nice fat paycheck after she ran the council into the ground and then she ran away with it. That is where some of our money has gone 🤬
The problem isn’t just councils, the main problem is Westminster.
You know exactly where it’s gone
@@Captain-Chats the moslims are scamming it all
Our county council is spending £8M on low traffic neighbourhoods (20 mph zones, cameras, large wooden plant pots in the middle of the road) despite local consultation turning up a resounding 'no' from residents. Now essential services will be cut for vulnerable adults and children and we're all facing council tax rises. Bravo.
Ltns are great.
@maskofsan1ty They're great if the objective is to add an extra 15 minutes to people's commute and make them just a bit more miserable in the process, while funelling all the localised air pollution onto the people unfortunate enough to live on the main roads that now need to take all the traffic. I guess if you're a NIMBY who either works from home full time or doesn't need to work you'd be in favour as they'd make your street nice and quiet so you can sleep in until mid-day.
@@harambae7014 I live on one of the roads that you think would see a massive increase in traffic and pollution.
Luckily reducing road space actually reduces traffic with the added advantage of claiming back space for the communities that live there.
Oxfordshire?
I live near a low traffic street.. I didn't support it at first, but it's turned out great tbf. Traffic has been encouraged to use the existing and upgraded bypass, and through the village they have installed large bike lanes on either side of the road, which I'm surprised how many people actually use now. And of course there is less traffic, less pollution, less noise through the residential area.
Broken Tory Britain
Labour; "hold my beer"
@@apemoon1731things were far better for me under a Labour government. I could actually afford to go on holiday and be able to walk in and see a gp straight away. This Tory government is the worst this country has ever seen.
@@Stuark54 Birmingham went broke under a Labour council. Labour took away the family doctor and presented over a target culture that culminated in the mid Staffordshire hospital scandal. Labour are in power in Wales and the Welsh NHS is in a terrible state.
@chrisj9700 Birmingham went broke under Conservative central government austerity. My local council has had central government funding cut from 85m in 2010 to 7m now. It faces bankruptcy now and was led by Conservatives.
Labour created the mess, it was they who broke Britain in the 1970s, in the 2000s etc.
Takes longer to fix it than break it.
Birmingham is also labour controlled, socialist economics do not work
You need to tax the super rich. They saw their wealth increased enormously while the rest of the UK is in destitution. Roads collapsing, school collapsing, more and more people go to food banks, NHS crumbling, more and more obese kids who cannot afford real food. this has become a third world country.
Too true. Although not quiet a third world country, but heading that way. Rising inequality is crippling and needs to be addressed.
Don't be silly, taxing the rich means they're taxing themselves. You wouldn't shoot yourself in the foot, so why would they?
The so-called super rich are already taxed through to their eyeballs, what you want is cash taken from people that have earned it, and handed out to people that have not earned it
I guees EU need to accept some British refuges soon 😂
@@struanmills5710 only diversity could turn the UK into a third world country.
We need to collectively call for full financial transparency. Our governors have consistently swept the idea under the rug but we, as tax-paying citizens, should have the right to see the accounts every year and discuss them. Why won't the govt do this, what are they hiding?
corruption’.corruption’.corruption’.corruption’.
It's not corruption if those in power were voted in... it's stupidity of the aging boomer population.
Neolibcons, Neolibcons, Neolibcons...
I've lived in the same place for 20 years.
in that time the council tax has nearly doubled, and the population of the town has more than doubled.
there are no more schools, less play areas, , no new dentists, about half as many GPs.
local community centres have been turned into flats, local pubs have been turned into flats, local leisure facilities have been turned into flats. none of the new flats have adequate parking areas.
Local mental health facilities for adults have been shut down, local mental health facilities for children have been shut down, the local family planning clinic has been shut down.
The local library has halved in size, the market place is empty, the only shops on the high street are now charity stores and bookmakers.
local community-led businesses (friendly local game store, local wood shop, community cafe) have all gone bust.
How is that with twice as many people, paying twice as much council tax, we're getting less than half the services we were?
This country is going down the pan in terms of looking after it's citizen but still thinks it's a significant player on the international stage and is the only stooge to its big brother the US.
No matter how poor they make us, one day we'll find the money for pitchforks.
sign me up :)
It's coming 😮
virtual pitchforks
don't forget the flaming torches! Oh wait, can afford the stick & old strip of bedsheet but not the oil.
Ropes cheap
Ukraine needs money guys
The reason is 14 years of Tory government. Still, working class people would vote for them. The question is why do these people feel let down by Labour or alternatively why are there so many people who are irredeemably stupid.
Immigration
@@davidcooks2379 if that’s the best you can do it’s time to turn it in.
So nothing to do with mass migration using more and more services then while contributing very little? Of course not, its the evil tories and Labour will be able to pay for the whole world to be looked after! You're a genius.
@@phil4162 does immigration have anything to do with it in your view then?
@@freshtoast3879 Immigration has always been an issue because it’s always happened but we’ve never been so screwed over by the government.
I’d rather stuff their 2% National insurance tax cut. I’d rather have decent services. I don’t want a bribe thank you very much. I think at this point, the Tories are designing a sh-t parcel, to pass to the next government.
grabbed back same day as your council tax hike again but the highest ever especialy in brum
The tax burden is at its highest since the end of WW2
That says a lot, what says more is that you want to tax people further.
Nothing like dipping your hand in someone else's pocket to make yourself feel better
It's not the national insurance. It's that the 0.1% keep not paying taxes and sending the money offshore.
Why are companies with tax haven locations allowed to simply pay less tax?
… but Ukraine has British express card… 🤣😂😅
Peace
@@user-ds8rj2vc4v
That richest 0.1% sending their money offshore is worth as much as millions in lost tax to the revenue and customs.
Why dont MPs take a pay cut to help the country they have taken so much from?
Because then what is the point of working as an MP? They're all in for the money, not a single one is in for the people. Let's be real, that is true to the core.
This government has let councils rot😮
People are paying for nothing in return.
But they have enough money for !s ra3l & Ukraine!!!
Councils are supposed to bemanagemed well, birmingham is labour controlled, and ran in socialist style, it never works.
Government should not have to fund councils.
We are paying to cover for their mismanagement. Austerity doesn't work.
Full financial transparency is what is needed. Our governors have consistently swept the idea under the rug but we, as tax-paying citizens, should have the right to see the accounts every year and discuss them. Why won't the govt do this, what are they hiding?
It’s the cost of our councils paying hotel bills for immigrants
Didn't Rishi move money from poorer councils to make richer ones better? It seems the real problem is the government giving more funds to some areas instead of addressing the specific issues in each council.
It's a sinister plot by the tories tto get the public to blame the poorer labour run councils for providing a substandard services to vote in replacement tory run councils and tory majority central governmemt ignoring tte fact that all those poorer labour council's have had their funding slashed to the bare bone by tory central government that caused the aubstandard council services, not the labour party running those councils.
they cut labour voting areas and gave it to the tory voting ones.
Nah, he's just moving money from poorer people into his pockets. If his wife paid taxes, it's enough to fund many councils out of bankruptcy, lol. Tax evasion as its finest.
Yes, and was so proud of it he openly talked to his constituents about it. Fascinating times!
This is a fucking disgrace
It really is like the Tories want to provoke a revolution.
That’s what the USA is doing, so I guess its little pet lap dog will follow suit.
That's one of the reasons they're turning minorities against minorities, the working class against the disabled and people seeking refugee status, Because if people started uniting then they know they'd be held to account more but causing division in whatever way they can, keeps people distracted and struggling, causing depression and anxiety in poorer communities thereby crippling the society as a whole but have them blaming each other for their woes.
I don't believe that it will improve anytime
why do you think they want to ban protest?
The only revolution we need is a revolution to reform the British political system. This bilateral turd system is outdated and inefficient, because let's face it, Labour isn't going to do any better.
Its strange. When i was growing up pieces like this were about either African or eastern countries on the brink of debt, where countries were failing.
Welcome to Tory Britain. Since 2010 the Tories have destroyed any prosperity the UK ever had.
Wrong, in the 70's and the 00' labour broke Britain.
It takes longer to fix something than break it, even worse when we are stuck with labour created laws and socialist policies.
Labour are the ones responsible forcdestroying Britain
Labour is a fault as well - this what you get when you import thousands of migrants at cheap cost of £10 million to house and look after each with money solely from the taxpayers pocket.
They spent millions on stupid road names and building mosques how is this the government’s fault
Yay we have 6 billion to send to Ukraine for war but nothing for own home
😢
Because Truss & Co spent it all on unfunded tax cuts on the wealthy & handed out fraudulent PPE contracts to their mates.
we spent 20bn last year cutting banks tax rate. they only pay 2%!
Don’t forget the £10 million per day on Illegals!
Stop the Tories!
But they have enough money for !s ra3l & Ukraine!!!
Vote labour and see the economy die. Brum is labour run, and badly, woke services for freeloaders and they want gov bail outs, get real.
Just FYI Birmingham elected members of parliament are majority labour it's Birmingham council that's filed the section 114 notice (effectively bankruptcy for a council)
@@andrewc8441 Whats your excuse for the £2.6 billion debt the cons left Woking saddled with?
@@andrewc8441 and who funds the councils? their budgets are set by gov. who are..... tory. learn some politics kiddo
Being told by 999 to call a taxi as your own ambulance. How fantastic!
Mental
Might be the best strategy they can think off to scare people from coming as immigrants and asylum seekers?
Don't believe this
@@Bob-sh3ztit's true. wait times over 2 hrs
@@Bob-sh3zt it's true.
To pay for all those brand new homes they have just purchased for migrants casting millions and millions the Birmingham council paid and there in the north east I would stop paying my bill
Council cut services while they give themselves big pay rises. Around 60% of the council tax we pay goes the pensions for retired council staff and councillors. No longer fit for purpose and 100% not value for money.
Sensible levels of yearly immigration, and heavy investment in manufacturing high quality goods is required,
- and that would just be a band-aid.
Imagine if most of the £billions we're spending each year on America's proxy war in Ukraine, housing the migrants, and sustaining the seriously overbloated civil service, were instead spent on, I dont know,
- building a semi-conducter chip factory, local small scale nuclear power stations, or harnessing tidal power???
But that's never going to happen, because the "regional branch managers" that now seem to be running this country into the ground, are only interested in their short term investment plans.
- They want their returns now!
The days of looking ahead and building a productive future, are well and truly over,
- they want their money now, and that's why we all feel like we're being fleeced, because we are.
Sunak recently gave Moderna £12 million of hard earned taxpayer money to build a factory in the UK, to produce the ****** that doesn't work.., why?
Because his wife is heavily invested Moderna.
btw,
His father-in-law has just been given the exploratory licences, by Netanyahu, to start looking for the fossil fuels under Gaza, with his new friends BP,
- hang on???
What???
Yep, they're making off like bandits, while we all fight amongst ourselves over problems they've imported, and Marxist nonsense theyve been funding and pushing.
They're all Fabians now, they saw how stinking rich Blair got,bwith his dodgy wars, etc, and now they all want their cut.
Guy Fawkes anyone???
Just ask all those billionaires who built their basement pools in London townhouses how they are doing with their tax breaks.
D billionaires don't care about society they just do what they like they make d rules 😢
They didn't get a tax break because they weren't paying taxes to begin with.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are well known tax evaders. The media even brags about it openly. A way of showing the middle finger to the public.
Brexit isnt keeping them out. Its keeping us in
They should ask energy suppliers for some funding .
corbyn wanted to renationalise for 40bn. tories said too expensive. last year we gave them 160bn to keep prices a bit lower for a year. then we all paid double too.
Excellent idea for money to go back into the locality but unfortunately it goes to the shareholders. A central philanthropy tax akin to lottery funding, or just more transparency but wishful thinking.
In my area councils have been forced to sell buildings, parks, playing fields by central govt (apse). Most departments have become tiny sections in a new combined dept. Council emergency reserves have been spent. This austerity was to pay off national debt, national debt has significantly increased in last decade, so where has the money gone central govt?
What about all the millions they’ve spunked in Birmingham on an IT system overspend? Where’s that gone? As for these “equal pay” settlements…. would any of the people who’ve got those payouts have even asked without bloodsucking lawyers etc. We’re fast becoming a third world country, maybe we can do an appeal to those countries we seem to have endless funds for.
national debt is 2.5 TRILLION. a few million is pocket change isnt it?
btw, it wasnt under a trillion when labour left.
Time the ppl of London put there foot down and hold the government to ransom
The Tories have been in charge for 14 years, why are people still blaming immigrants? The immigrants aren't the ones in parliament cutting services or raising taxes.
Immigration has increased under the tories, including right up till now, all well post brexit too.
Why are you blaming tories for labour council mismanagement and socialist stupidity?
Labour broke britain in the 70's and 2000's . Most councils in debt are labour controlled, labour is the problem, the closet communists and socialist scammers that they are.
Yes so right’.
But the immigrants are a great distraction from the truth.
Tories = corruption.
@user-oy3yo7qe6o let them work and they pay US.
the £800 million saved from Brexit for starters@user-oy3yo7qe6o
UK has more money than ever before in history (currently about $3.2 trillion GDP) and yet everyone is skint AF :)
Math dont add up does it :)
@@snozrick Not even slightly :) Except when you factor in that the most wealthy people in the UK have increased their wealth by something like 50% in that last four years.....
And yet councils still pay extortionate fees for large tier 1 consultants and spend big on technology that delivers very little
You know, I am beginning to suspect these Tori policies may not be up to snuff
bit slow arte thee
@@dogkicker100 thems me brakes unfortunately
But they have enough money for !s ra3l & Ukraine!!!
Brum council is labour controlled, nothing to do with tories
@@nisahmed9121 The UK military was in dire need of good experience.
Utilities going up 300%, that money isn`t going back to the public purse like it once did.. Bus companies aren`t even owned by english companies anymore..
The money is being siphoned to private companies that's what's happening
mosty of our energy comes from national owned french company. we are subsidising the french basically. and massively.
Our country, it's businesses and infrastructure has been sold off to any country that wants it.
We don't own or make anything anymore
@@kanedNunable Norway is the greatest supplier of primary fuels to the UK.
Too many lazy staff providing mediocre services, along with fat cats at the top earning far too much money.
Local councils need to lose the obsession with box ticking.
My local council (Labour) just wasted £1,000,000 on a 'cyclops junction' to 'encourage cycling'. As a cyclist, i can say that there was nothing wrong with the junction as it was, but they can say that they now have a cyclops junction and tick the 'encourage cycling' and 'save the environment' boxes, so yippee 👍🏻👍🏻
The junction is on a bus route and left hand turns are now so tight for buses and HGV's that they have to swing out into oncoming traffic 🤦🏻♂️
Yet councillors vote themselves a pay rise year on year.
Diversity projects have had endless pots of cash thrown at them as councils dare not decline them incase they face a discrimination law suit against them .
Too many "pet" projects and wasted money on mismanagement of services . Too many outsourced jobs going to companies overcharging councils for the services the councils used to provide, and still could if they got rid of this toxic 'subcontracted' culture.
If the councils used common sense and kept things ' in house ', had their own workers and departments , then in the long run they could save millions .
It is OBVIOUSLY unsustainable to raise council tax by 20% over 2 years . This is NOT serving the public , it is robbing them. Most people are struggling to pay the council tax as it is , living hand to mouth , not being able to put food on the table or heat their homes .
Yes, a radical shake up is needed . I think sacking off these outside firms and cutting endless managers would save a lot of cash.
Its only a matter of time before more and more people risk going to jail through non-payment or cant-payment .
Conservatives are toast at the next election.
Of course they are that's why they are getting nasty with tax cuts
If labour get in the problems will become worse.
Socialist labour and its woke polices ruined the uk under Blair and in the 70's.
@@ab8865you like paying high taxes? Tax cuts are good. Everything you buy costs more because of taxes. Like council tax?
@@DrJamsdo you like living in a country where you don’t have access to basic needs and everything is broken? Extremely narrow minded to just focus on how much you are personally taxed.
@@Gnasherism can't afford that 2000 council tax bill? They might put you in prison. That's evil. Plus the council wastes so much money anyway
The country has been governed atrociously. It's absolutely shocking.
It's called lining ones own pockets
Council tax will be like mortgage waste of money and drain on my finances.
one bad flat in London I pay £1750 a year
Any council going bankrupt needs those responsible to be removed then remove the tories, let's not forget we got unlimited money for war, this is just unacceptable in Britain!
End all food and drink deliveries into the Borough of Westminster.
Stop feeding the beast.
Does the word mismanagement come to mind ?
I think they're delibertately setting the country up for a collapse.
Tories know they're out next year, so they're trying to set up the worst situation for a Labour government.
They Have Money For War But Can't Feed The Poor.”
Tupac! 💜
@@IAndIPlace 100%
oh those illegal invaders are certainly being very very well fed.
Heating on 24/7, as many clothes as they want - all high end ''high street fashion'', latest iphones, hotel rooms (5*, many listed buildings too)
The ''poor'' are certainly being very, very well fed.
It's just you don't get that worshipping open borders wasn't quite the thing you thought it was.
The waste in councils all over the land is astronomical. The folk who work there wouldn’t know about productivity if it slapped them in the face . Get them All working harder !!!
Sounds a bit like austerity is just trying to get shifted from national to local level.
Net Zero Services. Net Zero Houses. Net Zero Freedom.
simple answer put solar pannels on all buildings that help the community in the uk so community centres sports centres swimming pools hospices librarys police stations fire stations etc
it would help by
climate change
energy security
savings on bills for the next 20 years
extra jobs as people started to fit the pannels
a nhs hospital in swansea is saving 10,000 a week in their fuel costs
Why would they do that, when they are heavily invested in energy companies? Come on!!
That's the sensible solution to help with some energy costs, but government ministers are invested in the energy companies, so won't do anything to reduce their profits.
Of course, that would make sense to invest in renewable energy. But instead they will tax the people hundreds of billions to pay energy companies instead.
You live in a cloudy cold country. Solar panels are a delusion in that climate.
Climate change - net zero is all a scam! The WEF elitists are skimming money from the people and our stooge WEF puppets in govt manufactured it all along with the cost of living crisis! They're all in with the banksters pushing for our demise!
Birmingham council, please post on your website all the information that shows what you have been spending the money on. Everything!!!!!
The corruption in this country is pathetic
Can anyone please tell if any of council boses has there wage cut or bonuses taken away ?
no chance
Get brexit done, vote tory, suffer the consequences, now repent your bigotry
I'm suffering the consequences of other people's bigotry. What am I supposed to do?! I didn't vote for any of this, neither did the other half of the population!
A blind man could have seen this coming. England deserves this. The English common people must learn what are the consequences of voting Tory. Otherwise they would still be blaming Brussels, or some other boogeyman the corrupt media tell them to fear.
This is my cultural homeland, if it fails there is nowhere on earth for me to go that I may call home. It has been weighted down by a self serving civil service who are so interested in maintaining the status quo that only benefits them and keeps the human rights lawyers with a steady stream of cases. they are happy that our democracy is at a standstill and we cant enforce change quickly enough to deal with the whole host of issues that we face today. The Lords are antiquated and they only serve themselves in blocking laws for their friends and are only appointed for insidious political favours to the serving government at the time, this is corruption and subsequent treason to us the many and the people. We don't make any money any more, we have no industry that isn't strangled by environmental legislation that is completely ignored by other nations and thus they are open for business when we are not, and we all sit there and wonder why we are all getting poorer. Immigration has become a huge financial and social burden which needs pointed out now as its just not financially viable unless you actually have a high level qualification that we need to help us compete within high level industry and technology, that what you call positive immigration that serves a purpose. I'm aware thats selfish by nations by their nature should be self serving for their people first or whats the point? our fisheries somehow belong to other nations yet their resources do not belong to us? hypocrisy! Somehow entering our country illegally is not breaking a law and we Taxpayers are bearing the burden to put these people in hotels rather than prison, or by simply denying them their illegal access in the first place. This country needs complete reformation one that may not be possible because our democracy is only for the self serving and not for the average person. We cant change laws anymore without going through 5 international courts paying millions to lawyers and self serving politicians who only say that which will get them re-elected into their gravy train positions the next time we vote no matter which party you think is best, they are all selfish and a cancer. The first parliament has been reduced to a political point scoring contest all paid for by the British people. There is a revolution coming to this country sooner rather than later when the people wake and realise that the country cannot continue on its current political course without the quality of life for the Briton falling year after year, its only going to get harder for you and your families whether you vote for reform or labour or the tories, sweeping change is what is needed by the lawyers wont let you have it, the civil service wont let you have it because they are making far too much money just the way that it is. please wake up to what is happening
tories out
Vote labour for a socialist dystopia of poverty. It will be a lot worse under labour, brum city council is labour controlled, that is why the debt.
Labour under Blair destroyed Britain, labour killed the UK in the 70's. Labour are communist socialist poison to free and decent society.
The way to fix this is to tie council tax to property value. If your property goes up in value the amount of council tax you pay goes up. You also need to double or triple council tax paid on second/third homes. Also make foreign investors pay a special tax on property they own.
Tories out !
Just do not vote labour, they broke Britain under Blair and in the 70's. Heck history.
Brum council is labour ran, and badly, hence the debt. Labour corruption woke polices etc are to blame.
Why is no one ever held accountable for anything..this government are absolutely horrific
The most I hear from friends working in government are tales of incredible overspend on projects & items.
It just seems that such incredible & unaccountable inefficiency is now catching up on them - & US.
Stop paying for war and feed your people
People are numbers
Numbers don't eat.
We pay a little for the war in Ukraine to keep it turning into a real all out war that will cost a whole lot more.
War, genocide and colonialism is always how they got their loot.
Time to change who you vote next time otherwise you’ll get them same tactics
Follow the money....
Government don't have money to fund it's people but they've money to spend on war in abroad 😂
Our cash is syphoned off to defence contractors via Ukraine. It would be questionable otherwise, if BAE took the money from coffers, so they had to create a case for this large money laundering scheme, aka the Ukraine cause.
The taxes go into greedy people in high places
We will end up paying a standing charge for no services at all!
Every country in the world has spent money they never had...the day of reckoning is now here.
They have enough money for wars
Exactly
And migrants.
@@rb1062 people fail to realise that destabilising other parts of the world brings in an influx of migrants
So. Where does all the money go?
@@andrewbravery5114 you not seen the innocent people of Palestine being killed
How come there's billions for wars? But no money for here?! 🤷🏻♀️
we have now gone to 2.5 TRILLION national debt, tripled since labour left. a few BN is nothing in reality is it?
@@kanedNunable
if a billion is nothing.. but would fund every single council in this programme why don't they just pay it?
cut the council executive wages 1,000,000 for 5 people and they got loads of them on between £60,000 - 220,000 look into there wages for all councils members avarage £150,000. look at there wages online or ask for there wage structure for there wages
But they have enough money for !s ra3l & Ukraine!!!
Years of clueless councils making terrible business decisions and saddling the community with ongoing costs for decades to come.
Bet their final salary pensions wont be cut.
Yeah cant be anyrhing to do with mass immigration can it? Because immigrants dont use any services do they? The left will always ignore the elephant in the room, even while it tramples on them, as long as you can keep virtue signalling right?
What like the hundred billion the Tories have waited in the past four years imagine what we could of done with that money ow you would rather blame a council wouldn't you 🤔
@@kevinhayes7830 You probably blame the tories when it rains as well dont you? Who you gonna blame when Labour are even worse? Still the tories no doubt.
Looking at the figures you see Labour run councils had bigger cuts from government than Conservative ones, this was an unfair political choice, Hull had a over 50% cut from government since 2010 and was Labour for most of that time, now Lib Dem. Conservative councils are also struggling so maybe Labour have better managed a difficult situation. @luvthabeatz
@@sonofsomerset1695 how can it get worse than a corupt party stealing tax payers money a government running the country into the ground what could possibly be worse than a bunch of racists thieves 🤔
It's the consequence of an aging population that has for decades fought against a wealth tax, capital gains tax and voted in successive Tory governments who have given them tax cuts...
You just have to look at Woking borough council. The development project in the town centre was an egotistical project that has bankrupted the town, the biggest debt in the history of councils and the project isn’t finished. The responsible people which made the decisions are now nicely abroad with a lovely pension after resigning. No consequence. Disgusting.
It's quite simple. Do not pay council tax on mass, send these corrupt scumbags a message .
Its okay everyone..... Rishi Sunak tells us the economy is on the right track!!!
😂😂😂😂
It is!! For capitalist! Asset holders are killing it! 👍
For his wife dad and mr modi
@@aarttanner5083
Basically, don't be born in the last 30 years and you're in for a chance.
@@aarttanner5083
Disaster Capitalism.
GPs? Don't they get £100k a year for three-day work weeks?
No
Taxi driver: "We need tax cuts but also need more funding for public services" it almost sounds like you want to fund this with more borrowing, huh? Hypocrites.
Next council to decide bankruptcy is *Leicester Council*
Bureaucracy is rampant
Hope someone have a look into it before it goes bust
Birmingham money is in the Pakistan real estate, this curruption has not being investigated we need this investigated. They stealing money in front of our eyes its disgusting we locals gets absulutely noting from this council
Pakistan wants another IMF loan this year.
See the Tories have broken everything
Wrong, labour broke it, just can not fix it, because labour left us with socialist laws and policies. The indebted councils are labour run.
Same as the EU, we are slowly removing the 5000+ laws fromeurope that are a problem.
Birmingham is mostly labour
@@DrJams Camden is labour for 15 years and is close to be next biringham
Im sorry but that can't be paid. Council do nothing.
Public services in uk are utterly incompetent, this goes for both local councils and especially NHS.
Brexit has cost £140BN so far, imagine if we'd spent that on public services instead.
Nope.
Stop blaming it on BREXIT! It is a whole lot of other issues that this evil WEF govt have manufactured like cost of living crisis, inflation, climate change, net zero, food security (getting rid of our farmers) - all a scam pushed by these creeps for their elitist Agenda! We can blame our captured govts in the whole of the WEST! Check out the WEF playbook!!
Blame brexit on everything you fool
I'm sure sending it to Luxembourg was much more beneficial to British people.
That figures trash. It's not something measurable.
I think we need the french to give us a few pointers in how to start a riot.....
do they still have the guillotine? :P
To increase budget cuts during high inflation is never a good receipt. And then they will say "Well, you see how government is incompetent? We have no choice but to privatize"
One thing we have noticed on our travels around UK cities is the size and grandeur of council buildings. It is obvious that they don't skimp when it comes to their own acommodation and comforts.
Have you actually been in one, let alone worked in one? I have, for many years, and it's not unusual for Council staff in the grand old buildings to work in offices with buckets to catch the roof leaks. Or, in newer buildings, to have to put up with constant power outages and very dim lighting to save costs.
I’m sorry but that’s just not correct. I would second what the other commenter who responded to you said. Have you ever been inside a council offices, let alone multiple? I highly doubt it.
historic legacy
I have been to many council 'receptions' - otherwise known as 'booze-ups' where money was no object, the food the finest quality and the booze all free. The principals arrived in chauffeur-driven limousines - all paid for out of local taxation. Lowly council workers were not invited.@@finley8508
@davidsmith8728
The old false perpetuated myth peddled by the tories that labour councils up and down the country are wasting billions of council tax they receive from tax payers on luxury corporate facilities for the coucillora at the expense of providing key council aervices when there's no proof that that is the case.
Is this a so-called developed country?
Don't ever let anyone tell you the UK isn't dripping with cash. It's just all been funnelled further and further up the ladder. If you voted tory anytime in the last 40 years, give yourself a prize, you "won".
Billions are wasted on illegals
Billions wasted on migrants
Labour do the same as well look at their large corporatists donors. George Galloway got it correct when he said that the main parties are the Uniparty and they serve higher masters and are both there to simply pit the public against each other
This not about party affiliation. They are all run by freemasons and part of the satanic NWO agenda.
Funding： 9:20 of the video talk about road conditions, and underfunding for road repair.How much tax are out in on petrol in last decade? Does it in line with inflation? If monies not raise from the users, who else should pay for the work.
Are the borough easy to commute? How are the network of cycle lanes, public transport hub that integrates to support low cost, high efficiency traffic?
Are compromise of few taken so that growth can take place…?
Bureaucracy is the main reason for the council to go bankrupt.
I hope someone take action.
In hosing , housing repair and other services all are corrupt.
If you want tories running the country, their not cheap.
They’re 🙄
Immigration, immigration, immigration. We've finite resources in the country and we can't expect to take in mass numbers and expect efficient public services.
Total nonsense we have a serious demographic problem in the UK and Europe that means we haven't got enough working age people we have a constipation based economy not enough working people means we will totally be destroyed so do one with your immigration rubbish 😂
No, we haven't got finite resources. It's just that most of the resources are in too few pockets.
@@amandahunter4034
Of course resources are finite. Unless you're living in a fairytale land.
Rich people, rich people, rich people. They're gobbling up the resources.
We have to compete on the global market place for resources so the country’s only major finite resource is land. Nearly everything else can be imported, including labour.
Because there's loads more arrivals that are taking up said services, there i said it.
One of the quickest ways to put money back into councils budgets is to remove their allowances and have the councillors use their wages to pay for their “work related expenses”